Beautiful Creatures

Richard LaGravanese's Beautiful Creatures (US, 2013) - Now that the Harry Potter and Twilight film franchises have run their course, Hollywood is undoubtedly searching for the next supernatural-romance series to lure young audiences. Beautiful Creatures may temporarily fill that commercial void, but this Southern tale of witchcraft and adolescent hormones doesn’t cast much of a spell. An adaptation of the 2009 novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures is occasionally sexy and sassy, but mostly it’s just silly. (SCREEN). RATING: 4